<$autorange> issues

[Fred Ridder]

I apologize in advance if I'm the bearer of bad news, but it
just occurred to me that there is another way in which you
may not be getting the desired results in your index.

If you have two markers with the same entry text which
appear on the same page, I suspect that FrameMaker will
present those as a *single* entry (presumably with the
paragraph number that corresponds to the first marker that
FrameMaker encounters) rather than as two discrete entries
with different paragraph numbers. FrameMaker is designed
to collapse all identical index markers that appear on the
same page into a single entry.

As with the autorange issue, I think you're in trouble because
FrameMaker's index-building logic is designed for page-based
references rather than paragraph references. I suspect that
you'd be able to do what you want by means of some sort
of XSLT processing if you were using FrameMaker in structured
mode, but I'm not sure I see any way around the page-based
limitations in unstructured FrameMaker.

-Fred Ridder


>From: "Rob Shell" <rshell at iafrica.com>
>To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>Subject: <$autorange> issues
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:43:42 +0200
>
>Hi guys:
>I am having trouble with the <$autorange> feature. I am using it in 
>conjunction with the <$paranum> as is usual for bibliographies.
>
>I am inserting it in the right place, i.e. before <$paranum> in the correct 
>reference page text flow.
>
>What I get in my index is
>
>Cornell, Carohn 383, 1717–1734
>
>which looks OK but is wrong. Paragraph numbers from 1718 to 1733 are not 
>authored by Cornell. The entry should read
>
>Cornell, Carohn 383, 1717, 1734
>in other words three discrete entries
>
>here, autorange is creating a range where none exists.
>
>I have consulted the Adobe Framemaker manual but confess I am licked.
>Perhaps someone can shed some illumination on my mystery.
>
>There are many other mysteries in the reference pages which I should be 
>able to understand but cannot, for example, why is there a page titled 
>"Index specifications" which looks like it should be directing the 
>construction of the index, but it is the last page with no heading which is 
>really doing the direction.
>
>My entire project is ready to go to the publisher but here I am with no 
>autorange....
>
>
>
>
>
>Robert C.-H. Shell
>Extraordinary Professor of Historical Demography
>UWC
>Courier address:
>Room 3,23
>Statistics department
>New Science Building
>University of Western Cape
>Modderdam Road
>Bellville
>7535
>Western Cape
>Republic of South Africa
>
>Airmail address:
>Prof. Robert C.-H. Shell
>Room 3,23
>Statistics department
>New Science Building
>Private Bag X17
>Bellville
>Western Cape 7535
>Republic of South Africa
>E-mail addresses:
>rshell at uwc.ac.za
>rshell at iafrica.com
>Fax: 021-959-2909
>
>

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